Error Brings Offers Of Aid

February 3, 1987

TITUSVILLE -- Embarrassed city officials have been flooded with calls from across the nation volunteering to help pay for correcting the spelling of astronaut Judith Resnik`s name on a Challenger memorial, officials said Monday.

The astronaut`s name is spelled ``Resnick`` on a $1,500, 2-foot-by-3-foot bronze plaque set in granite at the base of a $36,000 memorial in Sand Point Park, just across the Indian River from the Kennedy Space Center.

Although no decisions had been made, an offer from Robert Neal, an Orlando funeral home owner, appeared to be the best solution to the problem, officials said.